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Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House

Summary

Nora's life is on the upswing. Her husband got a promotion, and their financial struggles are over at last. But when a man from her past reappears, bent on bringing a dangerous secret to light, everything changes: her marriage, her family, even her relationship to the world around her. The opening night of A Doll's House was one of the seminal moments in theatre history. The play’s explosive ending and sly, insinuating tone hit its audience like a thunderbolt. Now director Kirsten Brandt and translator Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey team up to create a new adaptation of the play expressly for the Globe’s intimate Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, bringing audiences closer than ever to Ibsen’s spellbinding masterwork.

Cast

Torvald Helmer

Fred Arsenault

Fred Arsenault has appeared on Broadway in The Royal Family (Manhattan Theatre Club) and Born Yesterday. His Off Broadway credits include Henry V (Guthrie Theater/The Acting Company) and Blue Man Group. His regional and international credits include Marie Antoinette and Stone in His Pockets (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Spy (Guthrie Theater), The Book Club Play (Arena Stage), Travesties (McCarter Theatre Center), Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer and Measure for Measure (American Shakespeare Center), Billy Bishop Goes to War (Virginia Stage Company), The Playboy of the Western World (Hangar Theatre) and Pericles (Continuum Company in Florence, Italy). His film and television credits include Shadows & Lies, “The Good Wife,” “Person of Interest” and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Mr. Arsenault has been awarded the Baryshnikov Arts Center Fellowship and is a Beinecke Fellow at the Yale University School of Drama. He received his M.F.A. from the New York University Graduate Acting Program.

Nils Krogstad, Porter

Richard Baird

Richard Baird is thrilled to be making his Globe debut. His regional credits include Oberon and Theseus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Portland Center Stage), The Prince of Wales in The Madness of George III (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Gus in The Dumb Waiter, Tom in This directed by Kirsten Brandt, Tajomaru in Rashomon, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet and Valentine in Arcadia (North Coast Repertory Theatre), the title role in Macbeth and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival) and productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Diversionary Theatre. Mr. Baird served as Associate Artistic Director of Southwest Shakespeare Company where he played the title roles of Cyrano de Bergerac and Tartuffe, Iago in Othello, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Leontes in The Winter’s Tale. In San Diego, Mr. Baird formed the award-winning Shakespeare troupe Poor Players, for whom he has acted and directed in over 20 productions. His favorites include the title roles in Hamlet, Macbeth and Coriolanus, Angelo in Measure for Measure (2004 San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), Malvolio in Twelfth Night and Hotspur in Henry IV, Part I. Mr. Baird lives in Chicago and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

Nora Helmer

Gretchen Hall

Gretchen Hall is making her Globe debut. On Broadway, she was a member of the company of Stick Fly. Her Off Broadway credits include Saturn Returns and 7th Monarch. Regionally, she has worked at Arena Stage, Westport Country Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, CENTERSTAGE, Shakespeare on the Sound and Hangar Theatre. Her television credits include “Law & Order,” “Person of Interest,” “Louie,” “Deception,” “Gossip Girl” and “Lipstick Jungle.” Her movie credits include Almost in Love and The Weekend (soon to be released). She received her B.A. from Fordham University and her M.F.A. from New York University’s Graduate Acting Program.

Dr. Rank

Jack Koenig

Jack Koenig is happy to be making his Globe debut. On Broadway, he spent three years in The Lion King as standby for the leading role of Scar. Since leaving that production he has been very busy, working on Broadway in The Pitmen Painters and Accent on Youth, Off Broadway in Incident at Vichy, The Cocktail Party and The Grand Manner and in 16 regional theatre productions, including A Moon for the Misbegotten, Private Lives, Heartbreak House (NH Theatre Award) and four world premieres, most recently Clementine in the Lower 9 at TheatreWorks Silicon Valley. He received a Drama Desk Award for the Off Broadway play Tabletop. Television viewers have seen him this season on “The Good Wife” and “Zero Hour” and in previous years on “Sex and the City,” “The Cosby Mysteries,” “Now and Again,” “The Education of Max Bickford,” various soaps and all three “Law & Order” programs. His film credits include National Treasure, I.Q., Last Exit to Brooklyn, Ceremony, The Proprietor and My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. He is a member of The Actors Company Theatre and The Actors Center.

Anne-Marie

Amanda Naughton

Amanda Naughton has previously appeared at the Globe in A Doll’s House, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy, Lost in Yonkers, The Women, The Constant Wife, Loves & Hours, and Paramour. Her Broadway credits include Into the Woods (2002 revival) and The Secret Garden (also the National Tour, Jefferson Award nominee). She has appeared Off Broadway in Romance in Hard Times, Hundreds of Hats, 3 Postcards, and Mr. President. Regionally she has been seen in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Chasing the Song (La Jolla Playhouse), A Little Night Music (Goodspeed Musicals, LA Opera, South Coast Repertory), Amour and O. Henry’s Lovers (Goodspeed Musicals), On the Town (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Gypsy, Tartuffe, The Waves, Misalliance, Bedroom Farce, and The Threepenny Opera (Hangar Theatre), Anything Goes, Hello, Dolly!, The Sound of Music, The Foreigner, Lend Me a Tenor, Steel Magnolias, and Barefoot in the Park (Forestburgh Playhouse), The Royal Family (Caldwell Theatre Company), The Betrayal of Nora Blake (Cuillo Centre For The Arts), Another Kind of Hero (Walnut Street Theatre), and Edith Stein (Geva Theatre). Her television credits include the role of Betty Roberts on AMC’s original series “Remember WENN,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Payne” with John Larroquette, and “Chappelle’s Show.” Her film credits include Mexico City and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, which opened December 25, 2013.

Mrs. Kristine Linde

Nisi Sturgis

Nisi Sturgis loves returning to The Old Globe, where she has been seen as Honey in Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf? and Monica in Life of Riley, both directed by Richard Seer, Loves & Hours directed by Jack O’Brien, Pentecost directed by Mark Lamos, The Taming of the Shrew directed by John Rando, Much Ado About Nothing directed by Brendon Fox and Pericles directed by Darko Tresnjak. Her Broadway and New York credits include The Woman in The 39 Steps directed by Maria Aitken, Laura in The Pretty Trap (Theatre Row), Mrs. Van Buren understudy in Intimate Apparel directed by Daniel Sullivan (Roundabout Theatre Company and Mark Taper Forum) and Dsyphoria and The Less We Talk directed by Alec Duffy (Ontological-Hysteric Theater). Ms. Sturgis’ regional credits include three seasons with Denver Center Theatre Company as Vivie Warren in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Alice Sycamore in You Can’t Take It with You, Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Sister James in Doubt, Lady Anne in Richard III and four seasons with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey as Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire, Jean Louise in To Kill a Mockingbird, Raina in Arms and the Man and Rose Trelawny in Trelawny of the Wells. This summer Ms. Sturgis will play Lady Macbeth at the Illinois Shakespeare Festival. In HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire,” she has the recurring role of June Thompson. She received her M.F.A. from The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program.

Helene

Katie Whalley

Katie Whalley is delighted to be making her Globe debut. Her San Diego credits include Cabaret, Parade and Man of La Mancha (Cygnet Theatre Company), Chicago (San Diego Musical Theatre), miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Hello, Dolly! (Starlight Musical Theatre) and Gypsy (ion theatre company), for which she received a Craig Noel Award for her portrayal of the title role. Her other regional credits include White Christmas, The Secret Garden, Big River and The Producers (Musical Theatre of Georgia), Nunsense and Thoroughly Modern Millie (McLeod Playhouse), Rivets (Galatean Players) and It’s a Wonderful Life (Janesville Armory). She received her B.F.A. in Music Theatre from Illinois Wesleyan University. Following A Doll’s House, she will appear in Cygnet Theatre’s production of Company. katiewhalley.com.

Team

Playwright

Henrik Ibsen

Henrik Ibsen (1828 – 1906) is often considered the father of modern drama. His plays are still highly topical, and after Shakespeare, his works are more frequently performed than any other playwright in the world. He began writing plays in 1850, and his best-known works include A Doll’s House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the People (1882) and Hedda Gabler (1890). Many of Mr. Ibsen’s plays are realistic, issue-driven dramas that focus on social criticism. A Doll’s House was Mr. Ibsen’s international breakthrough. His later plays shift to psychological and symbolic drama. His four last dramatic works, The Master Builder (1892), Little Eyolf (1894), John Gabriel Borkman (1896) and When We Dead Awaken (1899), are frequently characterized as dramatic self-portraits, as artistic confessions in the name of self-scrutiny and self-awareness. In 1900 Mr. Ibsen suffered his first stroke. His “dramatic epilogue,” When We Dead Awaken, was thus and appropriately the last dramatic work that he wrote. In all, Mr. Ibsen wrote 26 dramatic works and some 300 poems.

Translation, Adaptation

Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey

Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey is Professor Emerita of Theatre at San Diego State University. Swedish-born and educated in Sweden and the U.S., she is a board member of The August Strindberg Society of Los Angeles (TASSLA) and a former board member of the Ibsen Society of America. As a translator and dramaturg she specializes in the plays of Ibsen and Strindberg as well as contemporary Swedish plays for young audiences like Medea’s Children. Her platform translations have been used by a wide range of Ibsen productions, from academic theatre to regional theatre to Broadway, serving adaptations of Ibsen’s plays by Jon Robin Baitz, Christopher Shinn and Mabou Mines, among others. Her first Old Globe assignment was as dramaturg for Jack O’Brien’s production of Ibsen’s Ghosts. Her first collaboration with director Kirsten Brandt was as translator/dramaturg for Strindberg’s A Dream Play at Sledgehammer Theatre in San Diego. Committed to providing global access to the vibrant dramas of Ibsen and Strindberg, Ms. Harvey is pleased that her translations into English have also served as source texts for local language productions in Mysore, India and Beijing. Since her early immigrant days in Minneapolis, Ms. Harvey has also been researching, performing, recording, documenting and lecturing on Scandinavian immigrant music and theatre in America. In 1998, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden awarded her the Kings’ Medal, 8th class, with the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim for outstanding contributions to Swedish-American culture in the United States.

Adaptation, Director

Kirsten Brandt

Kirsten Brandt has directed Hold Please, Lobby Hero, Christmas on Mars and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at The Old Globe. She is currently the Associate Artistic Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre where she directed Rabbit Hole, Splitting Infinity, Groundswell, This Wonderful Life and Legacy of Light and this spring will direct a four-person multimedia version of Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus. Her regional directing credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre (including last summer’s Zoot Suit), Shakespeare Santa Cruz, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, North Coast Repertory Theatre and Sierra Repertory Theatre. Ms. Brandt was Executive Artistic Director of Sledgehammer Theatre from 1999 to 2005 where she produced 23 theatrical events, directed 15 productions including Macbeth, A Knife in the Heart, A Dream Play and Sweet Charity and wrote The Frankenstein Project, NU and Berzerkergäng. Last winter Ms. Brandt wrote and directed The Thinning Veil, a multimedia, multisite telematic performance piece based on Electra. She is the recipient of numerous KPBS Awards, a Backstage West Garland Award and two San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Awards. Ms. Brandt is a faculty member in the Theatre Arts and Digital Arts New Media (DANM) departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is an alumna of UC San Diego. kirstenbrandt.com.

Scenic Design

Sean Fanning

is a San Diego-based set designer with a career spanning over 40 productions on local stages. His previous Globe credits include A Doll’s House, Kingdom, and Plaid Tidings – A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid. His credits with the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program include Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. His other credits include In the Heights and Walter Cronkite is Dead (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Pageant, Maple and Vine, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Shakespeare’s R&J, Man of La Mancha, and Parade (Cygnet Theatre Company), and The Full Monty (New Village Arts). Fanning holds an M.F.A. in Scene Design from San Diego State University.

Costume Design

Alina Bokovikova

Alina Bokovikova is thrilled to work with The Old Globe again. Her recent design credits include the world premiere musical Words By, The Underpants, This and Henry IV (North Coast Repertory Theatre), The Playwrights Project and The Great American Trailer Park Musical (San Diego Repertory Theatre), A Man, His Wife, and His Hat and A Raisin in a Sun (MOXIE Theatre), Hedda Gabler, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the film Stereoblind, Phantom Band, Camino Real (Patté Award), Beehive: The 60’s Musical, Good Doctor, the ballet Les Noces and the opera La Traviata. Ms. Bokovikova has an M.F.A. in Costume Design from UC San Diego and a Masters Degree in Education from Russia. She is an instructor of costume design at UC San Diego and history of costume at Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising.

Lighting Design

David Lee Cuthbert

David Lee Cuthbert is pleased to return to The Old Globe, where his previous designs include Hold Please, Christmas on Mars and Rounding Third, among others. He is a frequent collaborator at San Jose Repertory Theatre where he designed lighting and media for Next to Normal, Love in American Times, Legacy of Light and Spring Awakening as well as designing scenery and media for Secret Order and As You Like It and lighting for The Dresser, Rabbit Hole, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Groundswell and The Kite Runner, for which he received a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. Mr. Cuthbert was a Resident Artist at Sledgehammer Theatre, desiging scenery, media and lighting for dozens of productions including lighting A Knife in the Heart, for which he won the Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. He lit Billy Crystal’s Tony Award-winning 700 Sundays on Broadway and its international tours. Mr. Cuthbert’s work has also been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Opera San Jose, Arena Stage, South Coast Repertory, Intiman Theatre, American Repertory Theater and Arizona Theatre Company. He is the Theatre Arts Department Chair and a professor of design at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Sound Design

Paul Peterson

has designed over 100 productions at The Old Globe, including Other Desert Cities, The Brothers Size, God of Carnage, Nobody Loves You, Odyssey, Engaging Shaw, Life of Riley, Plaid Tidings – A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Last Romance, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, The Women, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, and many more. His regional credits include designs for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Malashock Dance, University of San Diego, San Diego State University, and UCLA. Mr. Peterson received his B.F.A. in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.

Casting

Caparelliotis Casting

recently cast the Globe productions of Arms and the Man, Buyer & Cellar, The White Snake, The Twenty-seventh Man, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Royale, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Water by the Spoonful, Time and the Conways, Bethany, The Winter’s Tale, The Few, Double Indemnity, The Rainmaker, Other Desert Cities, Be a Good Little Widow, A Doll’s House, The Brothers Size, Pygmalion, and Good People. Their Broadway casting credits include Fish in the Dark, It’s Only a Play, Disgraced, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Casa Valentina, The Snow Geese, Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, The Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Dead Accounts, The Other Place, Seminar, The Columnist, Stick Fly, Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Fences, Lend Me a Tenor, and The Royal Family. They also cast for Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, LCT3, Ars Nova, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and three seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival. Their recent film and television credits include HairBrained with Brendan Fraser, “Odyssey” (upcoming, NBC series), “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC pilot), “Ironside” (NBC), and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).

Stage Manager

Jess Slocum

previously worked at The Old Globe on Buyer & Cellar, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, The Winter’s Tale, A Doll’s House, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, the 2011-2013 Shakespeare Festivals, Rafta, Rafta…, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Alive and Well, Sammy, Cornelia, Since Africa, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and The Glass Menagerie. Her Broadway credits include In the Heights. Her regional credits include Side Show, Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis, and Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse) and Post Office (Center Theatre Group). Her San Diego credits include Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, North Coast Repertory Theatre, and Lamb’s Players Theatre. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.